“Difficult News About Our Workforce” – Sony Interactive Entertainment announces a reduction in its global workforce
“Difficult News About Our Workforce” – Sony Interactive Entertainment announces a reduction in its global workforce
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“we need to future ready ourselves to set the business up for what lies ahead.” This Is Is Just Start AI Is taking Over many people going to lose job’s
Before anyone starts jumping on the AI wagon, remember that the reason for most layoffs in the IT industry that happened recently were because of COVID overhiring.
Jim Ryan was at London Studios 5 days ago…
https://x.com/nathan_brown/status/1762466931070619950?s=46&t=WdmDCgwdWrWglJ3HfjJtuw
Isn’t it basically impossible to do a layoff in Japan? I heard that they usually offer 1 year or more severance packages to get people to quit.
Wonder what Sony is offering those in Japan to quit.
Yikes! This is massive. Shouldn’t be a surprise I guess after other companies have gone through the same. Still sucks
AI
AI strikes again.
Stories like these are going to become more and more common as AI spreads. We have to make sure companies are not the one who benefit from AI but rather the displaced workers.
My bet is they are reducing the overblown amount of “managers” as majority of tech companies do nowadays. Hell, I’m working in largest bank branch in my city and the staff of 24 people has 9 managers, like come on…
The timing of this was funny.
Article earlier this week:
>”FromSoft states their secret to success is retaining great employees.”
Sony:
>”We are laying off almost a tenth of our developers.”
For sure
Why the hell would they need to reduce workforce in studio like Naughty Dog or Guerilla? They are working on some of the most famous title of Playstation.
This “wave” of layoff in tech companies is on going since September 2022, when will that stop?
Confirmed God of war and Spider-Man coming to Series X?
I bet the heads of the company are getting a pay raise, and say the industry is changed to validate firing people, instead of taking a pay cut to save jobs.
We are not even a 1/4 of the way through the year and the games industry has laid off 7000 people this year. That’s almost 3/4 of the amount of people in the entirety of 2023 that got laid off (10500~ people)
I’m wondering how Sony could not foresee this situation, its analysts study the market so they could manage these difficulties in other ways
not a surprise when the parent company has had high double digit losses for almost a decade
Sony needs to spin playstation off as it’s own brand and quickly before it sinks with the rest of the titanic that is Sony.